Whiplash 1983Gonju. . . . . . .. , but now we are way above them in influence and still no pending takeover?? Have i missed something?
I thought you had to be the same influence or over 60%?
It's the cross-point. You'll need to lap again. crossing up or down to "Trigger".
Whiplash 1983Gonju. . . . . . .. , but now we are way above them in influence and still no pending takeover?? Have i missed something?
I thought you had to be the same influence or over 60%?
It's the cross-point. You'll need to lap again. crossing up or down to "Trigger".
Greybeard LXIBoendili have landed at Wohler Station and it is in Lockdown but no reason as to why any ideas. the only ship i have there is a Dolphin to carry on passenger missions.
One way systems go into lock down is through killing system authority ships. The way to get the system out of lock down is to bounty hunt or wait.
Bounty hunting in a Dolphin is something I would not be eager to try. If there is a ship yard you could buy a ship to bounty hunt with. Or just do passengers from another system.
Greybeard LXIBoendili have landed at Wohler Station and it is in Lockdown but no reason as to why any ideas. the only ship i have there is a Dolphin to carry on passenger missions.
One way systems go into lock down is through killing system authority ships. The way to get the system out of lock down is to bounty hunt or wait.
Bounty hunting in a Dolphin is something I would not be eager to try. If there is a ship yard you could buy a ship to bounty hunt with. Or just do passengers from another system.
Boendil Cheers, I have a Vulture not to far away, so I will try the bounty hunting. However when I looked at the missions none were available even for bounty hunting or for passenger missions.
Ryan MurdocGreybeard LXIBoendili have landed at Wohler Station and it is in Lockdown but no reason as to why any ideas. the only ship i have there is a Dolphin to carry on passenger missions.
One way systems go into lock down is through killing system authority ships. The way to get the system out of lock down is to bounty hunt or wait.
Bounty hunting in a Dolphin is something I would not be eager to try. If there is a ship yard you could buy a ship to bounty hunt with. Or just do passengers from another system.
Best thing is to not let a Lockdown happen in the first place. If you do enough bounty hunting a pending Lockdown can be pushed back or even completely avoided.
Ryan MurdocGreybeard LXIBoendili have landed at Wohler Station and it is in Lockdown but no reason as to why any ideas. the only ship i have there is a Dolphin to carry on passenger missions.
One way systems go into lock down is through killing system authority ships. The way to get the system out of lock down is to bounty hunt or wait.
Bounty hunting in a Dolphin is something I would not be eager to try. If there is a ship yard you could buy a ship to bounty hunt with. Or just do passengers from another system.
Best thing is to not let a Lockdown happen in the first place. If you do enough bounty hunting a pending Lockdown can be pushed back or even completely avoided.
BoendilHow does a lockdown happen in the first place, have I done something I shouldn’t have or can it be because of someone else. I haven’t destroyed anything untoward, unless it is when I accidentally boosted my ship into the internal wall of the station destroying it
Logan DarklighterBlood VipreJust got terrorized by Cmdrs Niatra and Dangerous.com
His souped up Fer De Lance and my teeny weeny Eagle. Bullies... Both of them.
No dialogue, I had nothing of value.
50 million in assets and credits, gone. Nearly four years of an hour or two a week playing time, gone..........
I won`t be playing this in open, ever, ever, again.
I'm also a bit confused how you lose 50 million getting killed in an Eagle. Even my hottest, most modified ship - A Fer De Lance with A-Rated everything and 70% Engineered systems, doesn't come close to that level of re-buy if it gets destroyed.
Nevertheless, I feel you on how many bastards are playing in open. Look up the info on "Smiling Dog Crew" or CMDR Harry Potter/Besieger sometime if you want your faith in humanity utterly and completely tanked.
I normally fly solo, private group or in Mobius. I've been burned myself by griefers once too often.
But I was in open play a couple of days ago. The ONLY reason I was playing in open was that it seemed like the only way to get a wing going for the Thargoid CG. Higher population and all that. I was flying back to the station after an unsuccessful outing in a Rando Wing trying to take down a Thargoid. The Starfish actually RAN. Never saw that before.
I'm at 40% hull integrity and modules averaging 80%. I'm also NOT set up for PVP in the slightest.
And some asshole jumps me less than 10 light seconds from the station. He was WAITING for wounded birds like my poor Anaconda to be coming back.
Oh HELL no. I'm not giving some rat bastard like that the satisfaction of the kill and rebuy.
I pulled "the loud handle".
The "Loud Handle" is what fighter pilots call the eject system activation - sometimes it's a hoop between the legs. Sometimes it's above the head. The end result is the canopy is ejected and the ejection seat is rocketed out of the cockpit.
In my case, the "Loud Handle" is the USB Wireless "dongle" that connects me to the internet by way of the Router Wi-Fi.
Boom. Done. In game he just sees me vanish.
Yeah it's a "combat log". Yeah in some people's eyes it's breaking the rules, terms of service, whatever.
F***K it. I don't care. I wasn't set up for PVP. I'm not A-Rated or engineered enough. A fair fight is for fools. And that was in no way a fair fight.
And I am no fool.
I was going to lose. Yes - I forfeited the fight. But I also get to KEEP MY MONEY.
Cheeky bastard also had the balls to try and "friend" me when I logged back in about 20 minutes later (In Solo mode, just to be safe). PFFFT. YeahRIGHT. Like I said - I'm nobody's fool. That request is DENIED.
Someday when I'm a better pilot and have a fully PVP rated ship, I'll fight back fair and square. But until that time. NOPE. Loud handle is the way to go.
And don't fly in open unless you absolutely have no choice.
MORTradio My other suggestion is that when you enter open mode in Elite Dangerous, you should go into it with the philosophical mindset of Thomas Hobbes, that within a natural state, people are bad (or are bad without an authoritarian figure(s), which is obviously absent from ED).
M. LehmanMORTradio My other suggestion is that when you enter open mode in Elite Dangerous, you should go into it with the philosophical mindset of Thomas Hobbes, that within a natural state, people are bad (or are bad without an authoritarian figure(s), which is obviously absent from ED).
I would counter that by offering the following quotation from Montesquieu:
"The man who trusts his fellow man will make fewer mistakes than the man who distrusts."
Open isn't the den of gankers that some would have you believe. Not even close. The rationale behind these claims has less to do with actual danger and more to do with basic human psychology. A typical person could fly by a fellow CMDR a thousand times in open without incident and think nothing of it- and then get attacked without provovation on the thousand-and-first encounter. Which is that person going to remember more, and then use to color their perception of open?
That's right: the one-in-a-thousand violent encounter. It isn't stupidity. It's just how people's brains work.
Open is fantastic, and is in my view is the true spirit of the game. You mix the rewards of forming real camaraderie with others with the risk of ne'er-do-well types pirating or attacking from out of nowhere. Not everyone is out to get you- not even close!- and to actively avoid other CMDRs out of misplaced caution is to rob oneself of one of the most rewarding aspects of the game.
